Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines. A disclosed example involves: (a) automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; (b) automatically determining whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; (c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; (d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically installing the monitoring agent on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; and (e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configuring the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.
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2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the satisfies the service monitoring rule when the service corresponds to an identifier of a service to be monitored defined in the service monitoring rule.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service satisfies the service monitoring rule when the virtual machine on which the service is removed corresponds to the virtual machine specified by nodes defined in the service monitoring rule.
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to detect the service removed on any of the virtual machines, wherein the scanning of the virtual machines occurs in response to detecting a configuration change of one or more of the virtual machines.
6. The method as defined in claim 5, wherein the detecting of the configuration change includes executing a discovery script on the virtual machines.
7. The method as defined in claim 5, wherein the scanning is performed by a service analyzer separate from the virtual machines.
8. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the monitoring agent collects performance data for the service, tracks events generated by the service, and allows a user to start and stop the service from a virtual machine monitor.
9. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the service monitoring rule defines metrics used by the monitoring agent to monitor the service.
12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the satisfies the service monitoring rule when the service corresponds to an identifier of a service to be monitored defined in the service monitoring rule.
14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the service satisfies the service monitoring rule when the virtual machine on which the service is removed corresponds to the virtual machine specified by nodes defined in the service monitoring rule.
15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the service monitoring rule defines metrics used by the monitoring agent to monitor the service.
16. The system according to claim 10, wherein the service analyzer and the agent installer are separate from the virtual machines.
17. The system according to claim 10, wherein the monitoring agent is to collect performance data for the service, to track events generated by the service, and to allow a user to start and stop the service from a virtual machine monitor.
20. The one or more non-transitory computer-executable storage devices of claim 18, wherein the service satisfies the service monitoring rule when the virtual machine on which the service is removed corresponds to the virtual machine specified by nodes defined in the service monitoring rule.
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